GENEVA (Reuters) - It was largely for lack of any other news that I launched Margaret Thatcher's favourite soubriquet "The Iron Lady" on the world one quiet but miserably slushy Moscow winter Saturday ...

More stories by Nigel M. Newcomer Alexandra Roach had big shoes to fill for her feature film debut. In “The Iron Lady,” the Welsh actress portrays Margaret Thatcher in her younger years, before the ...

Meryl Streep ran into difficulty while unveiling a new poster for The Iron Lady in London this morning. When the curtain cord failed, Streep and director Phyllida Lloyd resorted to pulling down the ...

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Making a film about an iconic politician like Britain's Margaret Thatcher is akin to walking into a movie minefield, and casting an American -- even one as revered as Meryl ...

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Recently, a co-worker expressed a mixture of anticipation and caution with regards to The Iron Lady, the Meryl Streep-headlining biopic of the controversial former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret ...

Whatever you thought of Margaret Thatcher — and during an unbroken stretch in office from 1979 to ’90, the former Prime Minister, who died on April 8 after a stroke at the age of 87, attracted both ...

That might work if the film had focused on the relationship between the former prime minister of Great Britain and her husband of over half a century. But there’s no emotional buildup, and so no ...